‘Sight and Sound’: Launching the Next Century of Fine Arts at Bowdoin

View of the Rotunda of the Walker Art Museum showing plaster “casts of the antique,” before 1937.

The new Robert H. and Blythe Bickel Edwards Center of Art and Dance marks the beginning of a second century of fine arts in Bowdoin’s curriculum. The College first included formal courses in art and music during the 1912-1913 academic year.

On This Day

2002 : John Gould Day is celebrated throughout the state of Maine. John Gould, Class of 1931, was widely recognized as the dean of Maine's premier writers, and wrote about the state and its people for more than eighty years.

Please bear with us while we retroactively post obituaries from back issues of Bowdoin Magazine. This process has currently skewed the chronology of our listings. We're working to fix the problem. In the meantime, please go to bowdoinobituaries.com and search by class year.